After years of worry over the way people interpret the National Hurricane Center’s forecast cone graphic, the weather center will bring an experimental new graphic online this summer.

The forecast cone is central to how we prepare for hurricanes: It communicates who is in a storm’s path and how quickly communities must act. But critics have argued that it fails to properly ...

Recent hurricane data (A.D. 1842–2009) are from National Hurricane Center (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2011). Hurricane categories are based on maximum sustained wind and ...

The state has withstood more direct hurricane strikes than any other state, and it is often grazed by storms that end up making landfall elsewhere.

The outlook is not a forecast of hurricane landfalls. A graphic shows Tropical Storm Lane, downgraded from a hurricane, passing the islands in 2018, and Hurricane Douglas, which came within razor ...

16-18. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE graphic Even after it passed Hawaii, Dora still maintained hurricane strength, passing more than 300 miles south of Johnston Island on Aug. 10 and crossing the ...